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Peter Cohen | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 As a high schooler who was chronically truant, I find this story terrifying.

https://www.boston.com/news/schools/2023/09/06/been-skipping-school-mayor-wu-may-be-knocking-on-your-door/
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199aa63b | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @03a95182 LMAO, she’d have had to knock at like 8-9pm to catch my mom. Who would have looked at her like she was crazy. 

“I can see three potholes, how about you fix the damned road? Hey, you know what would be awesome? More buses running more often so I don’t take THREE FUCKING HOURS to get home. How about you fix that instead of bothering me Nosy Nancy?”

Would have been the funniest shit.
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e5942d98 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @03a95182 My high school forced you retake classes if you were absent too many times (I think it was 22… but it’s been three decades so I might be misremembering) regardless of your grades and in many cases even if there were medical reasons for them.